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18 July 2004 (USA) morePlot Keywords:
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(2 articles)
The Happening (From The AV Club. 12 June 2008, 2:17 PM, PDT)
Marketing Campaign for Disney Film Goes Over the Top
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 19 July 2004)
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Entertaining in a MST3K sort of way more (69 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| Billy Arrowood | ... | Himself - Location Scout | |
| Adrien Brody | ... | Himself | |
| Deepak Chopra | ... | Himself - Author | |
| Johnny Depp | ... | Himself | |
| Sean Andrew Fash | ... | Himself | |
| Callum Greene | ... | Himself | |
| Adrian M. Hickman | ... | Video Store Manager | |
| Nathaniel Kahn | ... | Himself | |
| Maggie Kiley | ... | Cecilia Meadows | |
| Ilana Levine | ... | Publicist | |
| Brick Mason | ... | Himself - Storyboard Artist | |
| Griffin Newman | ... | Teenage Fan | |
| Chandler Parker | ... | Javier Ortega | |
| Sharon Pinkenson | ... | Herself - Film Commissioner | |
| Jicky Schnee | ... | Jennifer | |
| M. Night Shyamalan | ... | Himself | |
| Benjamin Smolen | ... | Shyamalan fan | |
| John F. Street | ... | Himself - Mayor of Philadelphia | |
| Greg Urban | ... | Himself - Anthropology Professor |
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This entire film was a mockumentary that was advertised as an unauthorized bio of reclusive director M. Night Shyamalan. After going as far as Shyamalan reporting to the press that he was upset about the release of this film, many fans and journalists became upset when they later learned it was all a hoax. The Sci-Fi channel released an apology a few days before release for their campaign strategies. moreFAQ
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Good in concept, poor in execution, "The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan" was plagued by terrible acting, amateurish directing, and the easy comparison to "The Blair Witch Project" which did a similar type of promo on the Sci-Fi network. The 3-hour (!!) "mockumentary" was nothing more than a giant infomercial for Shyamalan's body of work and his new movie "The Village". The worst part of the film was the acting. The old woman who supposedly knew Night as a child came off like one of those old ladies you see in commercials trying to sell you life insurance. The real estate agent overacted so badly that I can't believe she wasn't recast. The believability factor of the script was also quite low. Why would the director talk to a pizza guy about M. Night Shyamalan? Why would anyone care if Johnny Depp was considered for the lead in "Signs"? If electrical equipment strangely stops working around Shyamalan, how does he work around all that equipment on a movie set? I could go on, but you get the idea. Perhaps if this movie was shorter and perhaps if the acting and script were better, this could have been a decent "horror" film along the lines of a "Twilight Zone" episode. As it turned out, it was about as scary as "Manos, the Hands of Fate".